I am thinking of selling a piece of PHP software (a set of scripts). Naturally, since this is PHP, the source code is freely available as soon as people get the code, so I am studying how I can "legally" protect it from sharing and distribution without any money. I know that this is not going to protect him in practice, I just want to make sure that I am sending the right signal.
I do not mind if the buyer changes, modifies and expands the access code - as soon as they buy it, they can use it for anything. They simply cannot freely give it away.
From what I see, most open source licenses allow you to freely redistribute software, and that doesn't interest me. I just want the buyer to enjoy the freedom to do what he / she wants with his software, but still letting me make money selling it.
In a sense, it is open source (since the source is provided and can be used), but not "free", as in freedom, in software.
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